Royal Navy 1792-1802

– Gardiner, Robert, Warships of the Napoleonic Era, London: Chatham, [1999?]
Grocott, Terence, Shipwrecks of the revolutionary & Napoleonic eras, London: Chatham, [1999?]
– Lavery, Brian, Nelsons Navy, The Ships Men and Organisation 1793 – 1815, London: Conway Maritime, 1990, An excellent book , a comprehensive guide to the navy in the age of sail, from ship building to guns, sailing to manning
– Lewis, Michael, A Social History of the Navy…, London: George Allen and Unwin, 1960. A facts and figures book, very good tables and useful information
– Lyon, David, Sea Battles in Close Up: The Age of Nelson, Shepperton: Ian Allan, 1996. As the title describes, from fleet actions to single ship encounters. Very good detail and useful diagrams
– Mahan, Alfred Thayer, The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812, 2 vols, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1892, 380 p., 428 p.
– Pivka, Otto von (a.k.a. Digby Smith), Navies of the Napoleonic Era, Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1980, 272 p.
– Pope, Dudley, Life in Nelson’s Navy, Naval Institute Press, 1996. Standard text of the conventional view, life in the navy as brutal and hard.